Highlights for State Fair

• WRAL-TV’s Chad Flowers Honored at State Fair

  WRAL-TV News Photojournalist Chad Flowers had no idea what he imagined as another day working stories for the Big 5 at the North Carolina State Fair would see him receiving a top honor from the man he calls “the CEO of the Fair.” Flowers received the Ambassador of Agriculture Award from Commissioner of Agriculture Steve […]
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  Meet WRAL-TV Personalities at 2022 State Fair

  WRAL-TV personalities will be on hand to greet viewers at the North Carolina State Fair!  Come by the WRAL tent, on the northeast side of Dorton Arena facing restaurant row, and say “Hi” to your friends from the Big 5. WRAL Anchors, Reporters and Meteorologists will be in the tent in various shifts every day […]
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  Visit WRAL-TV in a Whole New Way at the State Fair

  The North Carolina State Fair is currently underway, after a year off due to the pandemic.  WRAL-TV came up with a creative way to have a presence at the beloved NC event during a time when the pandemic is still an issue.  The Big 5 has “planted” a WRAL anchor garden, filled with cut outs […]
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  60 Years of WRAL History Came Together at State Fair

  Thousands of visitors walked through the WRAL-TV tent at the 2016 North Carolina State Fair and were treated to a history lesson about the Big 5.  WRAL-TV Promotion & Event Coordinator Debbie Tullos talked to Capcom about how the idea for the pop-up mini-museum arose and then how the station’s creative team made it happen: […]
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  Color. HD. State Fair.

  Many people associate the annual North Carolina State Fair with sticky cotton candy, gut wrenching deep fried food, vertigo-inducing rides, pettable goats, and parking madness. But, each year they come back for more. Capitol Broadcasting Company CEO Jim Goodmon delights in telling a couple of state fair stories that brought about “firsts” for WRAL-TV. Early […]